if i got any angrier i might explode.
oh. my. god.
this is so terrible.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jun/18/memphis-cop-fired-role-beating-suspect/
http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=9321704&nav=4XzR
and fuck you commercial appeal, for making your report as fucking transphobic, sexist and rascist as possible:
"Transgendered refers to transsexuals, cross-dressers and others whose outward appearance does not match their sex at birth."
outward appearance? OUTWARD APPEARANCE? oh yeah, right, cause she was so like infact a woman but tottally internally a man right? she just, like, decided to change her gender, as like a whim. "hey wouldn't it be like really funny if i decided to become a black transgendered woman? then i could be one of the most oppressed people in thewhole world! lolz! what a joke!"
while being booked for suspicion of prostitution.
are you implying that this is somehow relevant? this statement positively reeks of victim blaming. "she's a prostitue, so it was ok to slape her up a bit"
"which also shows Johnson striking the officer at least once. "
which made it ok for the officer to beat her to the point of hospitalisation? again with the total fucking lack of relevancy.
"She said McRae put on his gloves and slipped his handcuffs across his knuckles and started hitting her."
was the "she said" really necessary? like, you know...there was cause for doubt? giving the whole VIDEO EVIDENCE thing.
.there are just no words.